#128 Congratulations! "Mazal tov" and more
Streetwise Hebrew
TLV1 Studios
4.9 โข 988 Ratings
๐๏ธ 10 May 2016
โฑ๏ธ 8 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is all about "mazal tov." How do we congratulate friends who have a newborn baby? And what do you say when you're not sure if it's a boy or a girl, in a gender-based language like Hebrew? Host Guy Sharett has all the answers.
New words & expressions:
Mazal tov โ Congratulations โ ืืื ืืื
She-yihie be-mazal (tov) โ Congratulations โ (ืฉืืืื ืืืื (ืืื
Mazal tov la-yomuledet โ Happy birthday โ ืืื ืืื ืืืืืืืืช
Mazal tov al ha-herayon โ Congratulaions on the pregnancy โ ืืื ืืื ืขื ืืืจืืื
Mazal tov al hadira โ Congratulations on the apartment โ ืืื ืืื ืขื ืืืืจื
Magi'a lecha mazal tov, lo? โ You deserve a mazal tov, right? โ ?ืืืืข ืื ืืื ืืื, ืื
Brachot โ Blessings, greetings โ ืืจืืืช
Ani me'achelet lecha sheโฆ โ I wish that youโฆ โ ...ืื ื ืืืืืช ืื ืฉ
Eize keif lishmo'a โ So happy to hear (the news) โ ืืืื ืืืฃ ืืฉืืืข
Eize yoffie โ How great โ ืืืื ืืืคื
Be-sha'a tova โ May all go well/Congratulations โ ืืฉืขื ืืืื
Bekarov etslecha/etslech/etslachem โ (May we celebrate the same thing) for you soon โ ืืงืจืื ืืฆืื/ืืฆืืื
Ma ze/mamash samachti lishmo'a sheโฆ โ I was so happy to hear thatโฆ โ ...ืื-ืื/ืืืฉ ืฉืืืชื ืืฉืืืข ืฉ
Ratsiti/Ratsinu lehagid mazal tov โ I/we wanted to say "mazal tov" โ ืจืฆืืชื/ืจืฆืื ื ืืืืื ืืื ืืื
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Playlist and clips:
Elad Shodler โ Mazal Tov (lyrics)
Eric Berman โ Beinonimi (lyrics)
Sarit Haddad โ Me'achelet Lecha (lyrics)
Yehuda Sa'ado โ Be-tsel Dmuta (lyrics)
Tsipi Shavit โ Mazal Tov (lyrics beneath clip)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is TELV1. |
| 0:10.0 | Street-wise. |
| 0:11.0 | Straight-wise. |
| 0:12.0 | Hebrew. |
| 0:13.0 | Shalom, it's me Guy from Street-wise Hebrew. |
| 0:16.0 | Lately I visited lots of friends who have newborn babies and this made me think of what we can |
| 0:21.1 | tell them wishing them congrats for the new son or daughter. |
| 0:25.0 | So Masal Tov is the first and main wish. |
| 0:34.7 | Mazzal means luck. Tove means good, but it does not mean good luck. |
| 0:39.8 | It's congratulations. |
| 0:41.5 | You can say it for anything happy, birthday, someone who passed an exam, got a promotion, etc. |
| 0:47.0 | Sheihe be mazal tove, literally, may it will be with good luck, but it means congrats. |
| 0:55.0 | In Hebrew it's Masaltoff. |
| 0:57.6 | In Yiddish, Germanic Jewish dialect, it's Masltoff. |
| 1:01.8 | So in diaspora Ashkenazi communities you'll be hearing |
| 1:04.6 | Masltoff to the Israeli ear it sounds a bit like grandmother's language so |
| 1:09.6 | be aware of this Hebrew Masaltov Yiddish Mazzlethov and we can get into the politics of language |
| 1:16.6 | where in early Zionism people wanted to speak Hebrew in a certain way which later |
| 1:20.9 | came to be the Israeli way where the stress is at the end like |
| 1:24.8 | Shabbat and Shabbas in Yiddish, Masaltov in Yiddish. As people wanted to |
| 1:31.9 | fit in in the first years of the state formation, |
| 1:35.0 | they moved away from the Masltoff and Chabas to Masaltov and Shabat. |
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